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1887–1915

HE WONDERS WHETHER TO PRAISE

Rupert Brooke

I have peace to weigh your worth, now all is over, But if to praise or blame you, cannot say. For, who decries the loved, decries the lover; Yet what man lauds the thing he's thrown away?

Be you, in truth, this dull, slight, cloudy naught, The more fool I, so great a fool to adore; But if you're that high goddess once I thought, The more your godhead is, I lose the more.

So... the poor love of fools and blind I've proved you, For, foul or lovely,‘ twas a fool that loved you.

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